Animation & Motion Arts

Animation and Motion Arts teaches entry level animation skills for a variety of fields including entertainment, game design, the web, advertising, broadcasting, social media, and mobile apps. Using industry-standard 2D and 3D animation technologies, students develop professional skills for creative expression and visual storytelling. Students will develop a portfolio and participate in a shared incubator course with all Design/Media Arts students.

Required: Students must select 3 courses (9 units) from any of the emphases to complete the certificate.

All courses in this certificate require literacy and proficiency in writing and math. Projects require written, oral, and visual presentations as well as the application of basic math principles and skills.

A Certificate of Achievement is awarded upon completion of all required courses with a grade of C or better.

Effective:  Academic Year 2019-20

The program is expected to produce 20–25 certificates per year after it is fully established.

This previously approved curriculum is being updated because our Design/Media Arts department is transitioning from the ART catalog code to a new DMA catalog code. Course sequences, numbers, and names have been updated for clarity and student-friendliness.

Course	Title	Units	Year/Semester (Y1 or S1)
DMA 002 -OR- DMA 004	History of Design and Media Arts -OR- History of Digital Games	3.0	S1 (Foundation)
DMA 012	Digital Art: Painting & Drawing	3.0	S1 (Foundation)
DMA 070 -OR- DMA 072	Motion Graphics -OR- 2D Animation	3.0	S1 (Foundation)
DMA 080A	3D Modeling & Sculpting	3.0	S2 (Options for 3D Animation)
DMA 080B	3D Animation & Simulations	3.0	S2 (Options for 3D Animation)
DMA 092	Game Design II: Game Engines	3.0	S2 (Options for 3D Animation)
ART 012A	Beginning Life Drawing	3.0	S2 (Options for Illustration & 2D Animation)
ART 052A	Introduction to Illustration	3.0	S2 (Options for Illustration & 2D Animation)
ART 052B	Advanced Illustration	3.0	S2 (Options for Illustration & 2D Animation)
DMA 090	Game Design I	3.0	S2 (Options for Interactive Animation)
DMA 092	Game Design II: Game Engines	3.0	S2 (Options for Interactive Animation)
DMA 060	Creative Coding	3.0	S2 (Options for Interactive Animation)
DMA 098	Design/Media Arts Incubator	3.0	S3 (Capstone)

This certificate contains a foundation sequence in the first semester, a flexible second semester, and a capstone course at the end.

The flexible second semester helps the certificate meet the needs of students within a rapidly changing Design/Digital Media Arts marketplace. This also enables students returning from the workforce to skill up the chance to receive a certificate that caters to their individual needs.

Our capstone course is consistent across most of our certificates and will bring a diverse array of Design/Media Arts students together to work with industry professionals and in teams.

No other programs exist.

College Program Control Number Title TOP Code Program Award Cerritos 15184 Digital Arts -Computer Animation 061440 A Cerritos 20486 Computer Animation 061440 C Cypress 15694 Animation 3D Computer Graphics 061440 B Cypress 15693 Animation 2D Computer Graphics 061440 B East LA 13531 Animation 061440 A East LA 21168 Animation (Level I) 061440 C East LA 13532 Animation (Level II) 061440 C Fullerton 10610 Computer Animation/Multi Media 061440 C Glendale 10412 Digital Character Design 061440 S Glendale 11833 Digital Animation 061440 C Glendale 21304 Digital Character Design 061440 C LA Mission 11977 Multimedia: Animation and 3D Design Concentration 061440 A LA Mission 21764 Multimedia: Animation and 3D Design 061440 C Long Beach 35418 Digital Media: Interactive Design and Animation 061400 C Mt San Antonio 12632 Animation - Junior Animator Level II 061440 C Mt San Antonio 08101 Animation 061440 S Pasadena 36657 Digital Media - Animation & Motion Arts 061440 C Pasadena 36649 Digital Media - Animation & Motion Arts 061440 S Rio Hondo 30961 Animation 061440 A Rio Hondo 35766 Entertainment Art-Digital Characters 061400 C Saddleback 22880 Illustration/Animation 103000 C Saddleback 11957 Illustration/Animation 103000 A Santa Monica 21002 Animation 061440 C Santa Monica 13431 Animation 061440 S

Annually, we anticipate having about 600 enrollments in the courses for this certificate. We calculate this by multiplying the 14 courses in this certificate by our maximum number of students (24) and multiplying that by two for both Fall and Spring semesters. I am not including Winter and Summer in this calculation.